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therefore, felt strongly that it would be a mistake to box in a future hospital by including all this property in one medical node and he urged the Commission not to vote it in. Chairman Scurlock agreed another hospital would be built in the Vero Beach area before too many more years and felt a third medical district should be defined by staff in the very near future. He believed that we are also going to see private medical facilities in direct competition with public facilities in the future. Commissioner Bird understood then that we will have the flexibility to allow a medical facility, other than a major hospital facility, to build elsewhere and not limit it to this MED District. Commissioner Wodtke asked if the Board approved the medical district, what restrictions it would impose on the owners compared to C-lA, and Mr. Shearer believed that they would still be able to sell their property to someone for general office use and, of course, a medically related use. He could not really anticipate an office use that would be particularly harmful to the medical area, and noted that under the new zoning code, it would be the Board's decision to approve a change in use. Michael O'Grady, Assistant Executive Director of Indian River Memorial Hospital, recalled that they had assisted in the drafting of the MED District Ordinance and have had extensive discussions with staff about the size and quality of the node itself. He thought Dr. Cain's comments were very well founded, but felt that the conditions he described were really in existence today -- there is no provision in the Comp Plan for a major facility other than Humana Hospital or IRMH. Mr. O'Grady believed the intent in creating the MED District was to protect the nature of the hospital node and not necessarily to restrict the property owners in disposing of their property in any way. He 39 SEP 19 1984 BOOK 5 8 F' Gr 361